 | 1857 - 588 Seiten
...shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small and flat at top, with large ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose;...blew. To see him striding along the profile of a hill, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine... | |
 | 1857 - 588 Seiten
...dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small and flat at top, with large ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose ; so that it looked like a weathercock perched... | |
 | A. De Puy Van Buren - 1859 - 336 Seiten
...dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat...at top, with huge ears, large green, glassy eyes, a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock perched upon his spindle-neck to tell which... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1860 - 854 Seiten
...loosely hung together. His head was small and flat at the top, with huge ears ; large green, glassyeyes, and a long, snipe nose, so that it looked like a weathercock...wind blew. To see him striding along the profile of :\ hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 532 Seiten
...mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosel v hung together. His head was small, and flat at top,...hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth,... | |
 | William Adolphus Wheeler - 1865 - 462 Seiten
...dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat...hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth,... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1865 - 518 Seiten
...mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most looselv hung together. His head was small, and flat at top,...hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth,... | |
 | Christian Friedrich Koch - 1865 - 554 Seiten
...if I attempted) putting asunder those who wish for a union. Golds. To see (= seeing, if one ehould see) him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his cloth bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine. SK. Leg.... | |
 | 1866 - 538 Seiten
...dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat...hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth,... | |
 | C. F. Childs - 1867 - 262 Seiten
...dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat...hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him, one might have mistaken him for the genius of Famine descending upon the earth,... | |
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He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with... 
